Intel

The pay and benefits are good.

Some people are stuck in the same mentality that screwed the company over in the past. There is also often not one unified goal.

A good amount of employees have PhDs, but there is a resistance to experimentation and change. Consequently, the PhDs are going to waste, since experimentation is the whole point of a PhD.

Lots of politics and buzzwords.

Please ensure that you pair new employees with good, forward-thinking managers. Also, all groups need to put the company goal above individual metrics. There shouldn't be conflicts because one group needs to get wafers out the door, another group needs to make sure as much of a wafer is functional as possible, and another group needs to drive down cost.